New Druid Spell - Survival of the Fittest

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    A new Epic Druid Spell, Survival of the Fittest, has been revealed!

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  • RavenSunHS's Avatar
    Refreshment Vendor 880 1487 Posts Joined 03/27/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Shan'do Kael'thas Sunstrider shows the way to Druidism.

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  • Grumpy000's Avatar
    1880 1159 Posts Joined 06/06/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Too slow, unless triggered by Kael'thas Sunstrider 

    I am 69 years old and still reach Legend

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  • Skorpionex's Avatar
    Headless Horseman 1445 426 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    2x Embiggen in one card, which costs 10  more mana. Dunno, maybe it finds place in some kind aggro druid?

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  • allthehype's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 630 739 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Interesting mega-buff. Probably not for spell druid due to the lack of minions to be buffed. Could be used with Kael'thas Sunstrider, this expansion really seems like his time to shine!

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5544 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Scary card, unless you're druid. Its hard to think up a place for this thing in druid. Basically, unless its cheated out Embiggen is just a better card.

    The fact that other classes like priest, mage or rogue can get it is the real deal with this card.

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  • Elfensilver's Avatar
    595 663 Posts Joined 03/14/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    So very strong. So very strange. In what deck would this see play? You need something to bring down the cost- or at least a lot of ramp to play it soon- but also a lot of minions. In the best case it is a win-more card, but mostly it is a lose-now card. But maybe there could be some kind of Big-Spell/Spiteful druid in wild?

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  • Emptyness's Avatar
    Supporter 520 525 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

     If you manage to somehow lower the cost of this one or somehow just play it sooner as turn 10 - this one is so much stronger than embiggen, because the minion cost is not increased and it has impact on your hand and board, when you play it. 

    But the tricky part is to be able to play it and not immediately lose the game.

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  • economicaooc's Avatar
    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    A very expensive spell that does not change the board state unless you already had minions on the board.

    Druids don't really need this kind of effect when embiggen already exists and sees very little play outside of hadronox decks.

    Unlikely to see play, but the combo potential is more than zero, so it could be interesting to see how it plays out.

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Embiggen buffs stuff in deck this buffs the board, hand and deck.

    It's slow but it can be a finisher or cheated out with kaelthas as said by the first 2 commenters.. I think this has potential

    seems like druid is gonna get some beasts that probably work well with buffs (seeing the dual class legendary)

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  • Psymon's Avatar
    Red Riding Hood 1505 371 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Thief Rogue intensifies hard with this. Also insane with Tess in wild.

    Sometimes I think that some cards are intended to work fine with other class archetypes, druid working well with spells having this is like trying to force a new archetype that, at least for the moment, doesnt seem viable. Let's see when the rest of the expansion is revealed.

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  • meisterz39's Avatar
    925 1200 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Seems like it is designed to fit into a Swarm/Ramp deck, but those rely on spells to generate minion swarms, so the deck and hand buffs may not be all that impactful. Still, it's a powerful enough effect that it wouldn't take much to make it playable as a one-of.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    So if I recall correctly we had a very decent Big Druid deck at the beginning of the Outland expansion that ran Bogbeam and the other 7-mana 0 cost spell alongside some other cheap stuff as fuel for Exotic Mountseller. Replace Mountseller with Kael'thas, add in Overflow and fill the rest of the deck with a Big Dragon Core and boom. Big Druid that actually scales into lategame thanks to this.  With enough 0-mana spells you can play Kael into Overflow into this in a single turn and just win from there. Makes all those 4-attack dragons into actual threats (which is what was previously an issue with the archetype, the lack of actual game ending threats)

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  • vronco's Avatar
    195 44 Posts Joined 07/23/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    technicaly posibble turn 3 -

    2x new 0 mana innervates into[Hearthstone Card (Kael'thas Sunstrider ) Not Found] into new 10 mana spell :D

    leave you 8/11 kaelthas on board and buff deck ... even if you dont do anything next turn due do overload :D seems fair 

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  • BoltBase's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 180 12 Posts Joined 10/11/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I like it, obviously it is a big push if you have a board developed already (though that's unlikely as to get maximum value from this you will have to focus on ramping to either 7 mana for Kael'thas Sunstrider, or failing that pushing straight to 10). Mana ramp is this card's friend. Will it go the way of [Hearthstone Card (Mistcaller) Not Found] or are we looking at the new Prince Keleseth? Only time will tell

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Same, I can only see this in a Kael'thas deck since in other scenarios you need minions alive in the board before your turn to not be "10 mana, I lose tempo"

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  • JFK's Avatar
    Curious Pair 1070 621 Posts Joined 07/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Awesome in Spiteful Druid with Grand Archivist!

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  • GoliathTheDwarf's Avatar
    980 667 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Looks like we have another U[Hearthstone Card (ltimate Infestation) Not Found] level druid card on our hands here. This is sure to benefit from mana ramp and beast combo together. So glad to see the return of beast druid support.

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  • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Way too slow for an aggro, especially when Druids have good ole Savage Roar available.

    This is a tool for BIG Druid to make even BIGGER minions me thinks 

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  • linkblade91's Avatar
    Senior Writer Serra Angel 1700 2780 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I was going to print something like this for my Alraune class, so in a way I'm disappointed that it exists. Going for the hat-trick of hand, deck, and field scared me off, though.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    My initial impression is that it won't be good because it is 10 mana and requires you to already have a board and all that. But it will probably be fairly easy to cheat out. First of all, Druid has ramp. Also, there are cards like [Hearthstone Card (Kealthas Sunstrider) Not Found] and the new innervate. In wild this card also be used as a way to activate Spiteful Summoner. There are a handful of ways to utilize this card, and there will probably be a spell-cheating card in this set. I think this card has a lot of potential, but it definitely needs some support to be used.

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  • Xarkkal's Avatar
    Servant of Illidan 910 1321 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    With the amount of mana ramp available to Druid, and Kael'thas Sunstrider existing, this just might find a home. 

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  • RandomGuy's Avatar
    430 614 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    This feels like it competes too much with Embiggen at the moment. By the time you have 10 mana to play this, the increased mana cost of monsters from Embiggen stops mattering.

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  • CursedParrot's Avatar
    640 720 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Isn’t Gift of the Wild already run in Spell Druid? This is basically that but with +4/+4 and no Taunt (and a minor upside of buffing minions in hand and deck). This seems like a really good card.

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Seems like a REALLY strong card on paper, but i feel like it just isn't that strong in practice. Sure it's strong with Kael'thas Sunstrider, but what is is supposed to buff? Decks with Kael'thas Sunstrider often are spell-heavy meaning that you won't get much out of the deck/hand buffing aspect of the card. So i guess you would use it as a finisher? In that case why not use Savage Roar? Savage Roar is cheaper and does the same job with closing out games. I feel like the only real time you might play this card is if your ahead of you opponent, but even then, why would you cast this and effectively "lose" a turn while you can close out the game by building a bigger board? But at the end of the day, this is a 10 mana card in druid. And the 10 mana druid cards have always found a way to "break" the game. 

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  • Riffraff's Avatar
    755 370 Posts Joined 04/30/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    On the same note, this would be a great thing to cast off Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron or Yogg himself. Edit: my comment was meant to be in response to the comment about use in a Spiteful deck with Grand Archivist.

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  • Demonxz95's Avatar
    Senior Writer 2245 2630 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    It's extremely slow if you don't have a big board, although it's not bad if you do.

    That said, there are two words. Two words that might make this card good.

    Kael'thas. Sunstrider.

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  • NegativeNemsy's Avatar
    405 206 Posts Joined 07/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I smell some even decks coming around the corner in wild.  With the spiteful/archivist package, you can run C'thun, Floop, and maybe even Twig variants.  

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  • kaiserkarl's Avatar
    Plains 295 133 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    The effect is powerful but I can't see this succeed in standard with just Kael as a trigger. It might find a deck or two in wild though.

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Keep in mind that this is a Druid card, which means it will likely be played at around turn 5. Its biggest issue is that the current token Druid runs mostly spells, so this card would just be a clunky Savage Roar in that deck. If druids can shift into a more minion centric approach to token druid, this can work there.

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  • Mazinger31's Avatar
    345 39 Posts Joined 08/05/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I'm trying to think of where this card goes and it seems like a less impressive version of Embiggen.  On 10 mana it'll be a scary find for Nature Studies, but not sure what deck would want to main deck this.  Maybe when Embiggen rotates this card will find a home?

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  • Erodos's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Amazing with Kael'Thas, but too slow otherwise. Fun meme though.

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  • Thonson's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1740 1724 Posts Joined 03/24/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Kael’thas is going to love this!

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  • MenacingBagel's Avatar
    815 721 Posts Joined 09/24/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I mean its also quite a good finisher if you already have a board established at 10 mana say a board of 1/1s or trees normally wouldn't be a problem but then turning them all to 5/5s or 6/6s would be a big swing. Like bloodlust but for druid and a lot more expensive.

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2226 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Huge buff to Puzzle Box!!!

    But seriously, very powerful but very expensive. By turn 10, you should be using this for lethal, so the buff to minions in hand and deck won't be relevant.

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2565 3344 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    (10) mana is slow
    for (0) mana is way too good

    is there a happy medium?

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    This is really spooky with Kael still around, but we'll see if it's spooky enough to beat the consistency of general spell spamming.

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  • Dermostatic's Avatar
    Eldritch Horror 535 228 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    At (10), this is slow, perhaps even for the mana-ramping rulers of the Inn, but 4/4 turns small minions into strong minions, and big minions into giant problems. I do think this'll see play even if its host deck doesn't make it to S/A-tier. Plus: playing big minions feels great. I'll definitely toy around with this in the first few weeks of the expansion.

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  • Meteorite12's Avatar
    670 696 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Looks kind of worthless without Kael’thas, and even then it doesn’t seem that great really

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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  • Alfi's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 1790 1375 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    This will improve The Amazing Reno

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  • JackJimson's Avatar
    670 673 Posts Joined 11/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Tried my hand with a little theorycrafting with this as a centerpiece.

    Came up with this.

    A bit of all-in on the ramp to get the big minions out with the Kael'thas Sunstrider and [Hearthstone Card (Fluffy Fight) Not Found] combo as the swing turn. I think a big problem of this deck is draw. Not enough draw to build the combo.

    The current meta card draw of druid doesn't fit:

    Settled with Nourish since it gives flexibility of more ramp or card draw.

    I want to try it out but doesn't look great lol. This card might be better as a top end card of a token druid.

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  • FieselFitz's Avatar
    Prince Charming 1105 1355 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Not sure about this card ... 

    Right now the only thing i can think of that this card will see some play is in Combination with Kael'thas Sunstrider

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  • sinti's Avatar
    Senior Writer Chocolate Cake 2070 2774 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From FieselFitz

    Not sure about this card ... 

    Right now the only thing i can think of that this card will see some play is in Combination with Kael'thas Sunstrider

    I think we might be surprised. The powerlevel of this card is definitely high, so who knows what kind of deck can get build around this.

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  • FieselFitz's Avatar
    Prince Charming 1105 1355 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    True ... and the more i think about it, the more i think this will see play - not only for Kael'thas. Could also work in some sort of Big Ramp Druid.

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  • sinti's Avatar
    Senior Writer Chocolate Cake 2070 2774 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From FieselFitz

    True ... and the more i think about it, the more i think this will see play - not only for Kael'thas. Could also work in some sort of Big Ramp Druid.

    Honestly it doesnt have to be a BIG ramp druid, just a midrange/tempo ramp druid that can rely on other things but ramp and when he does ramp, it will play similar to Nautilus and Deep mechanic in Runeterra, making your midrange-y minions into giants.

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  • Guenh's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 725 633 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I'm so scared of this card. Druid can cheat mana (ramp and innervate like card) plus Kael'thas Sunstrider...

    Big Druid can raise again, but the card is undeniably "slow"...maybe too slow to be used as finisher in some token deck

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  • Vandaren's Avatar
    620 636 Posts Joined 06/05/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    I'm just waiting this to be cast by Reno to be honest..

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  • Sparkinarius's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    If you're playing a Druid deck that cares about buffing your deck, as that's what most targets of Survival of the Fittest will be, why not just run Embiggen instead? Embiggen can be played earlier in the game, allowing for more buffed minions and for those buffs to be more impactful sooner as well as the fact that you don't need a 4 card combo with Kael'thas Sunstrider if you wanted the Survival of the Fittest buffs earlier. Embiggen is just more efficient and consistent for a buff game plan than Survival of the Fittest.

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  • Koetti's Avatar
    1095 863 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    I don't know...

    Like, you want this to hit as many Minions as possible, but if you want to make this work with Kael'thas Sunstrider, you'd have to run a considerable Amount of Spells.

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  • linkinboy0's Avatar
    Headmaster 1235 503 Posts Joined 07/07/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Embigger druid. I get the feeling I'm gonna hate playing against this.

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  • Lemushki's Avatar
    Squirtle 1110 1032 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    This will get nerfed pretty soon

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  • Valord's Avatar
    465 281 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    If this gets crazy, this will finally make Kel'thas get the nerf he deserves.

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  • MatwanBR's Avatar
    195 34 Posts Joined 07/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Kael+ this combo is amazing

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  • Fisguinho's Avatar
    The Raven 1190 411 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Really nice card for slow decks, borderline broken

    All hail the banshee queen.

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  • Janusi's Avatar
    Face Collector 595 225 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Only with Kaelthas can you make this work. Otherwise, you need to basically get a free turn while having ten mana. Or use Lightning Bloom

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  • ChocolateChipCooke's Avatar
    Unicorn Reveler 1160 337 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    I'm afraid for my sanity if this sees play in a competitive deck... or decks.

    Since ramp Druid is currently viable, I'm scared my fears will come true.

    Strong card, but I'm hoping I'm overreacting.

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  • NerdyMcNerd's Avatar
    Peon 1225 196 Posts Joined 04/13/2020
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    I'm dreading the day when this gets cheated out really early using Innervate and/orLightning Bloom!

    Disclaimer: if the above is factually incorrect or complete rubbish it is definitely both intentional and  comedy genius.

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  • Samzy's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 370 191 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Powerful effect but I can’t see it being used all that often.

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  • Safiron's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 620 156 Posts Joined 07/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Spiteful Druid is back! =)

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Damn, I love this card. I think it's probably not going to destroy the meta or anything, but it's something I'll certainly be messing around with. Probably in Wild, where you can better take advantage of the effect.

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  • SavageDrago's Avatar
    300 150 Posts Joined 05/07/2020
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    I would say unplayable right of the bat, but Druid time and time again made crap like this works when properly ramped. Blizz said they want to keep ramp in check, but we know the way the cookie crumbles.

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  • theo333's Avatar
    Outlandish Rager 975 876 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Soon Druid will be able to summon a full board of 10/10s on turn 1.

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  • FaytFFX's Avatar
    405 191 Posts Joined 12/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Just run Embiggen. D:

    Thanks to denial, I'm immortal.

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Only playable if you can cheat out early.

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    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
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    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    This is a very expensive spell, but that shouldn't be a problem for a druid.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2215 2494 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Will probably only see play with Ysiel Windsinger or Kael'thas Sunstrider.

    Just imagine turn 3: 2 x Lightning Bloom to play Kael'thas Sunstrider then Survival of the Fittest :O

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1565 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    It's not longer big Druid. It's now giant Druid!

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